Jajliardo, Elsie K.

June 23, 2002

JAJLIARDO, Elsie K.

Elsie K. Jajliardo, died Sunday, (June 16, 2002) in Port Orange, FL. She was born Elsie Kirstine Wayland in Hartford, on September 22, 1914, the daughter of the late Andrew and Inger (Petersen) Wayland. Elsie attended Hartford Public High School. Elsie married Karlo Carmen Jajliardo in New York City on January 26, 1934, and they raised their family and lived in Rocky Hill, for many years where she was a member of the United Methodist Church. She was widowed on December 24, 1963. On Elsie's retirement from the Fuller Brush Company and Rae Bearings Company, she moved to Port Orange, FL, where she continued her interests in buying and selling rare books, (she was an avid reader) and selling Fuller Brush products, traveling, gardening, buying and selling at the Port Orange Flea Market, and visiting and helping others, especially the elderly. Elsie was a prolific letter-writer and kept in close communication with family and friends all over the world. She thoroughly enjoyed meeting and getting to know people wherever she went. Through the years, Elsie would visit with her family in Connecticut, and would spend most summers with her daughter in New Hampshire where she would keep up with her rare book business and would buy and sell at local flea markets and work in her garden. She never thought of herself as aging; she always had a lively enthusiasm for each day. Only last week she was riding her tricycle to town and back, going for her daily walks and practicing yoga as she has always done. Survivors include two sons, Timothy, Scotland, and Karlo, Woodstock; two daughters, Elsie Dabrowski, Georges Mills, NH, and Joyce Couch, Stafford Springs; two sisters, Christine Pittman, Wolcott, and Gertrude Smith, Azusa, CA; 14 grandchildren; 15 great grandchildren; and her longtime companion and friend, Elmer Don Jones, Port Orange, FL. Memorial donations may be made to your local elderly or hospice organization.